Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 49
May 13, 2011
Author Interview
Late yesterday I had an author interview with me go live on Freelance and Fiction's blog, you can check out my interview plus lots and lots of other author interviews there. Great place if you are looking for new authors to read.
May 12, 2011
Corset design
I've been working hard with my very talented aunt-in-law, Anne Mountifield (she's doing most of the hard work to be fair), on designing a costume for a period piece flight needs and I'm pleased to say we've almost finished one of the most important components; the corset. Corsets are a hard part of historical design [...]
May 9, 2011
Northanger Abbey: A Review
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is the first book she wrote but the last published. It's about the very young and naive Catherine Morland who has never ventured from her little home town of Fullerton her whole life until a very lovely older couple with no children offer to take her to Bath. I have [...]
May 6, 2011
Promoting a self published book
Once a book is completely finished with cover, formatting and all the uploading to all the various sites is done, the real hard work begins. Most writers will agree, writing they can do. Selling themselves and making their name into a brand that people trust to write well is entirely another matter, especially in this [...]
May 4, 2011
Lots of new reviews.
I've been very excited to find I've had three new reviews of my book on Amazon.com in the last week. All three were high reviews and it's been really nice to hear of people enjoying something I have written so much, especially as it can be quite hard going marketing the first book for an [...]
May 3, 2011
As Sure As The Dawn: A Review
As Sure As The Dawn is the third and final book in the Mark Of The Lion trilogy by Francine Rivers. The third book follows one of the more minor characters from the first two parts. Atretes, the German from the Chatti tribe who was taken from his village and forced to be a gladiator, [...]
May 1, 2011
The Plan: May 2011
Last month's progress: Last month my aim was to do some t-shirt designs, finish my front cover for the print edition of my book and work on the graphic novels. I mostly made good progress in all three areas but didn't get any of them finished. What I did do, however: Finished polishing and emailed [...]
April 30, 2011
Social Network Sites
I've been very distracted the last few weeks with creating and maintaining all the social network sites there are on the web. Now I knew about twitter and facebook. I've been on both of those for years now but I do have a new facebook fanpage here I've also set up author pages on amazon.com [...]
April 27, 2011
Vampires Of The Sky: A Review
Vampires Of The Sky by Michael L. Preble was a book given to me to review in trade for the author reviewing my book. It's a historical short story with a hint of romance. Vampires Of The Sky synopsis from Amazon It's the summer of 1940. On the eve of the Battle of Britain, an [...]
April 24, 2011
With Proud Humility: Excerpt
As the date for this book being available in print is drawing near I thought I'd share an excerpt from Chapter 10 of the book. Marie was left alone for many minutes before she heard the door scrape open and the footsteps of two people walking in. She also thought she heard the sound [...]
